February 2012
“Everyone’s prejudiced and everything hurts.”
– Tumblr (via thenoobyorker)
lukut:
syeda:
“it’s a combination of all clip art ever, plus Mao”
“Jean-Luc Godard”
Murder + [Metonymy] μετωνυμία: sossity: “How... →
sossity:
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were,...
“Always use the word ‘Sand’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Whispers’ in your title. Subtitles...”
– How to Write about the Middle East is such a brilliant, hilarious read that it passes off as a good, fine beating-of-the-ass for “opinion makers” like Thomas Friedman and Co. This part is even better:
In your text, treat the Middle East as if it were one country, and constantly refer to it as...
sacraments:
ashes on your forehead as a fashion statement
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via transformfeminism)
“There is no power without potential refusal or revolt.”
– Michel Foucault (Omnes et Singulatum: Towards a Criticism of Political Reason)
Afshin Molavi: Future will be shaped by the rise... →
mohandasgandhi:
We are currently living amid the largest cohort of youth in human history. Young populations can be a demographic gift or a demographic bomb. A gift when governments effectively employ them, deriving sustainable productive value from their labour while the young people derive meaningful work experience, raise their incomes, marry, have children, invest, and continue the...
“But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is...”
– Arthur Rimbaud
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1873)
computer: EA games
me whispering: challenge everything
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“Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (via aidsnegligee)
“Word of his death was a shock to me, but not particularly surprising since I’d...”
– Hunter S. Thompson; a 1967 obituary of journalist Lionel Olay (via barredsubject)
Anonymous asked: what do you think about the conflicts of the middle east?
“Meaning is not in things but in between; in the iridescence, the interplay: in...”
– Stéphane Mallarmé
something i feel tumblr would do well to remember (via jedgarhooverinararaskirt)
“If writing is not a tearing of the self toward the other within a confession of...”
– Jacques Derrida (via oliveryeh)
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someone said I looked like a tumblr post last night
sxelex:
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
“If you think peace is a common goal that goes to show how little you know.”
– The Smiths (via this-charming-libertine)
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applebright:
hot in herre | nelly
sonofapritch:
sad—legs:
Anyone saying stupid things should go to sleep
Everyone should go to sleep
Poem - Frank O'Hara
sonofapritch:
Some days I feel that I exude a fine dust like that attributed to Pylades in the famous Chronica nera areopagitica when it was found and it’s because an excavationist has reached the inner chamber of my heart and rustled the paper bearing your name I don’t like that stranger sneezing over our love
[matryoshhka]: What is the Born Again Men... →
thenoobyorker:
sinidentidades:
Born Again Men is an ad campaign against the ferocious feminists hellbent on the castration, subjugation, and exploitation of men. The campaign focuses on internalized misandrists or men who have failed to recognize the value of their masculinity and…
“Why have sex when you can sit at home alone drinking tea and watching Coronation...”
– Every Morrissey quote ever (via cottonbutts)
hahaha (via thedelfina)
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“It’s not that Chris Brown is categorically unforgivable. It’s more that he’s no...”
– VICE on Cord’s Chris Brown post.
(via thenoobyorker)